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22nd Apr 2015 at 3:15 AM
22nd Apr 2015 at 3:15 AM
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Round 4
Prompt 1: Garden Ideas
Prompt 2: Outer space
Word Count: 887
Caption: Dr Kii-Tee in her Magic Jelly Bean Bush garden
Headline: Moo-ve Over Cow Plant there’s a New Pest Control in Town
What is more appealing cake or candy? That is the question researcher and avid gardener, Dr. Kii-Tee Gon Su Kii-Tee, has looked into for the past three years. Now, she believes she has an answer that may be a fast solution to the growing pest problem for all of the planets of Bramma Galaxy.
For 35 years, the Bramma Galaxy has been dealing with an infestation of simlings also known as sims. As the alien species have abandoned their home planet to find places that look like their imaginative movies so they could pretend to be heroes, they have begun settling on four of the five planets of the Bramma Galaxy. This strange species with their body odors and barbaric eating habits have caused an intergalactic crisis.
“Most species in the Bramma Galaxy reproduce on average at about every ten years.” Dr Kii-Tee said. “Simlings, however, can breed every season sometimes with multiple offspring. They even engage in what they call a 100 baby challenge where a female will give birth to one hundred young! It is insane.”
Besides, the explosion in population, simlings are also seen as just plain gross to most of the planets’ species.
“Simlings get sweaty and emit a foul odor,” Dr Kii-Tee explained. “They dig through and eat our trash of fruits and vegetables, calling our landfills ‘gardens’. Wherever there’s fruity garbage sure enough you’ll find a stinky sim.”
Sims upset the delicious food of the Bramma Galaxy planets-- like dirt, worms, weeds, and rocks-- by spoiling them with their disgusting “gardens”. For over a decade, Bramma citizens have fought back by cultivating the Laganaphyllis Simnovorii also known as the cow plant.
“Laganaphyllis Simnovorii has been domesticated as a pet in many Bramma homes,” Dr Kii-Tee said. “Learning that the weird cake substance that it offers is a magnet for sims was an unforeseen miracle.”
Indeed, many a sim who dares trespass on Bramma property has been consumed whole by the cow plant. Despite its success in deposing of sims, many still remain.
“Part of the problem is that Laganaphyllis Simnovorii can only eat one sim at a time. If you only have one plant on your property but several sims, well, you see the issue.” She said.
At first, Dr Kii-Tee was only trying to improve the cow plant. Multiple heads took care of multiple sims, but the plants were stationary and word has been spreading in sim communities to resist the cake at all costs. So Dr Kii-Tee took a different approach.
“After doing research on their home planet, I discovered that besides cake and pie, sims love candy. That’s when I set about creating a new death trap. The Magic Jelly Bean Bush.”
The Magic Jelly Bean Bush grows in an assortment of vivid colors that are sure to catch the eye of a passing sim. From their branches grow clusters of jelly beans. When they are ripe, the jelly bean are sweet and chewy.
“The great thing about the Magic Jelly Bean Bush is that it makes sims feel good, raising their moodlets,” Dr Kii-Tee said. “But it also can lead to death. The more they eat them the higher their chances of death become. Not only that, but the jelly beans can be shared simultaneously putting many sims at risk of dying all at once. It’s brilliant if I say so myself… and I do.”
There is only one down side to the Magic Jelly Bean Bush: you must plant a garden.
“Garden’s are only bad when they’re filled with nasty things like green beans and apples.” Dr Kii-Tee said. “One of Bramma’s best defenses against sims is to create our own gardens filled with things we like. Imagine a garden with piles of manure with yummy maggots crawling through them. Rows and rows of scrumptious rocks and Magic Jelly Bean Bushes to add a touch of color. My mouth waters just thinking about it.”
Dr Kii-Tee stressed that, like cow plants, Magic Jelly Bean Bushes are not harmful to Bramma species and are quite good in a fungus stew. They are all science and are only called magic because they "magically" take care of the pest problem. She has grown her own massive garden complete with the colorful bushes and has even gotten her neighbors to join in the endeavor.
“It’s very satisfying to have a fresh crop in your own yard,” said one of Dr Kii-Tee’s neighbors. “Even more so knowing that I am doing my part in the fight against pesky sims with the jelly bean bushes.”
But not everyone shares in the neighborhood’s joy.
The organization Bramma Against Cruelty to Sims (BACS) has been protesting Dr Kii-Tee’s jelly bean bushes.
“When will it stop?” BACS president, Eomu, said. “Are we going to build doorless walls around sims and let them starve? Will we trap them in a fire or drown them? We will continue to petition the Intergalactic Council on this issue. We must save the sims!”
According to Dr Kii-Tee these new fangled gardens are merely giving both sims and Bramma citizens what they want.
“Sims have gardens and now we have gardens,” she said. “If sims stay out of our gardens they have nothing to worry about.”
Magic Jelly Bean Bushes are set to go on sell throughout the Bramma Galaxy on Rocday.
--P3G3, The Intergalactic Times editor for the new Homes AND Gardens section
For 35 years, the Bramma Galaxy has been dealing with an infestation of simlings also known as sims. As the alien species have abandoned their home planet to find places that look like their imaginative movies so they could pretend to be heroes, they have begun settling on four of the five planets of the Bramma Galaxy. This strange species with their body odors and barbaric eating habits have caused an intergalactic crisis.
“Most species in the Bramma Galaxy reproduce on average at about every ten years.” Dr Kii-Tee said. “Simlings, however, can breed every season sometimes with multiple offspring. They even engage in what they call a 100 baby challenge where a female will give birth to one hundred young! It is insane.”
Besides, the explosion in population, simlings are also seen as just plain gross to most of the planets’ species.
“Simlings get sweaty and emit a foul odor,” Dr Kii-Tee explained. “They dig through and eat our trash of fruits and vegetables, calling our landfills ‘gardens’. Wherever there’s fruity garbage sure enough you’ll find a stinky sim.”
Sims upset the delicious food of the Bramma Galaxy planets-- like dirt, worms, weeds, and rocks-- by spoiling them with their disgusting “gardens”. For over a decade, Bramma citizens have fought back by cultivating the Laganaphyllis Simnovorii also known as the cow plant.
“Laganaphyllis Simnovorii has been domesticated as a pet in many Bramma homes,” Dr Kii-Tee said. “Learning that the weird cake substance that it offers is a magnet for sims was an unforeseen miracle.”
Indeed, many a sim who dares trespass on Bramma property has been consumed whole by the cow plant. Despite its success in deposing of sims, many still remain.
“Part of the problem is that Laganaphyllis Simnovorii can only eat one sim at a time. If you only have one plant on your property but several sims, well, you see the issue.” She said.
At first, Dr Kii-Tee was only trying to improve the cow plant. Multiple heads took care of multiple sims, but the plants were stationary and word has been spreading in sim communities to resist the cake at all costs. So Dr Kii-Tee took a different approach.
“After doing research on their home planet, I discovered that besides cake and pie, sims love candy. That’s when I set about creating a new death trap. The Magic Jelly Bean Bush.”
The Magic Jelly Bean Bush grows in an assortment of vivid colors that are sure to catch the eye of a passing sim. From their branches grow clusters of jelly beans. When they are ripe, the jelly bean are sweet and chewy.
“The great thing about the Magic Jelly Bean Bush is that it makes sims feel good, raising their moodlets,” Dr Kii-Tee said. “But it also can lead to death. The more they eat them the higher their chances of death become. Not only that, but the jelly beans can be shared simultaneously putting many sims at risk of dying all at once. It’s brilliant if I say so myself… and I do.”
There is only one down side to the Magic Jelly Bean Bush: you must plant a garden.
“Garden’s are only bad when they’re filled with nasty things like green beans and apples.” Dr Kii-Tee said. “One of Bramma’s best defenses against sims is to create our own gardens filled with things we like. Imagine a garden with piles of manure with yummy maggots crawling through them. Rows and rows of scrumptious rocks and Magic Jelly Bean Bushes to add a touch of color. My mouth waters just thinking about it.”
Dr Kii-Tee stressed that, like cow plants, Magic Jelly Bean Bushes are not harmful to Bramma species and are quite good in a fungus stew. They are all science and are only called magic because they "magically" take care of the pest problem. She has grown her own massive garden complete with the colorful bushes and has even gotten her neighbors to join in the endeavor.
“It’s very satisfying to have a fresh crop in your own yard,” said one of Dr Kii-Tee’s neighbors. “Even more so knowing that I am doing my part in the fight against pesky sims with the jelly bean bushes.”
But not everyone shares in the neighborhood’s joy.
The organization Bramma Against Cruelty to Sims (BACS) has been protesting Dr Kii-Tee’s jelly bean bushes.
“When will it stop?” BACS president, Eomu, said. “Are we going to build doorless walls around sims and let them starve? Will we trap them in a fire or drown them? We will continue to petition the Intergalactic Council on this issue. We must save the sims!”
According to Dr Kii-Tee these new fangled gardens are merely giving both sims and Bramma citizens what they want.
“Sims have gardens and now we have gardens,” she said. “If sims stay out of our gardens they have nothing to worry about.”
Magic Jelly Bean Bushes are set to go on sell throughout the Bramma Galaxy on Rocday.
--P3G3, The Intergalactic Times editor for the new Homes AND Gardens section
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